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Donna Compton Fine Art

EXHIBITS, SALES, SERVICES Denville, NJ 973-452-9750 donna@donnacompton.com

Dear friends,

Art is about sharing — an essential part of being human. We’d love to share the experience of these new paintings with you.

This series explores “painting” as both verb and noun; a brushstroke is action frozen in time. These works reveal generations of life through paint layered over broken surfaces on constructed forms. The repurposing of fragments and locations is a repeating dynamic that conveys the past and present through construction and decay, life and wear, repair and demolition and construction. Building through this cycle gives the paintings a sense of presence, like sculpture.

The paintings are reason enough to celebrate, but for Paul their very creation is a huge victory. After his studio and 35 years of art were reduced to ashes, Paul found refuge in tiny cabin 3A somewhere in the woods north of Cedar Lake. With a few old damaged hand tools, limited art supplies and no studio, Paul struggled for years, outside in the elements, to rebuild a portfolio of three dimensional paintings he could take to the New York galleries.

Now that the paintings are finished, we wish our friends to gather with us and together mark this tremendous accomplishment.

Donna